I Tested Viral Folding Furniture

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When it comes to projects with precise dimensions and tight tolerances, never convert the units. There will be conversion errors, there will be fractions that get rounded up/down and add up to compound errors which will lead to headaches

Build challenge: Chris draws plans for a project for John to build, one sheet of instructions at a time, so John doesn't know what it's supposed to look like until the last sheet.

Anybody who thinks these viral TikTok videos of folding desks are done in a day by someone in their shed is deluding themselves. They have obviously spent countless hours designing and perfecting the end result before shooting the final video. I love John’s videos for their honesty and genuineness showing warts and all. 😊

I am a weaver... married to a woodworker/furniture maker. It is AMAZING how similar these fine crafts are! So much goes in to the planing and prep, tweaking, covering mistakes, etc, to ensure a beautiful, functional final product- literally hours and hours- and then once things come together, it seems to go so quickly. Bravo on the folding desk. I would use this in a second!

As a German i find it so funny how you guys struggle and still stick to your imperial system. Everything gets easier in metric.

The best thing about your demonstrations is you show the struggles you go through. Too many other channels show a perfect build which you can’t follow. Thanks for the screw-ups 😊

Best Malecki quote ever!! "I can't talk, I don't know what I'm doing!" 🤣

The bit that made me chuckle the most, finishing the two triangles... "That took two hours". We've all been there! "I'll just quickly make this thing..." half a day later and we're still faffing. Great vid John & Co.

Im a machinist so we use decimal measurements instead of fractional but we just divide or multiply by 25.4 for millimeters or 2.54 for centimeters to get our imperial sizes in decimal form. Im also canadian and spent my whole life using metric measurement to then join a trade that uses mostly imperial. But 1 inch is 25.4 mm or 2.54 centimeters and although its very rare to see .254 metres. A program helps for when you do lots of them but thats the basic conversion. And then if you have a drill chart its easy to find your decimal size in imperial and just convert to fractional

I see you popped magnets for the door handle. It made me think you could pop magnets around the frame in all the edges that touch in both positions so when it gets close it gently snap pulls into a flat position, in both orientations. Just a thought.

It would be really interesting to see you do a project, just completely in the metric system. would be interesting to see where the challenges are, are they mostly internal because your just not used to it, or are there problems with getting wood only in imperial sizes or something or is imedialtly everything just plain better (unlikely). would love to see it!

watching someone work on a project and hate every second of it and then love it at the end is truly the definition of art

As a sewer, sometimes it's easier just to use inches. Sometimes cm. It just depends on the pattern 😂 it takes time, but simply using the measurements straight, if you don't need to adjust, follow the pattern and it will be fine.

Hey thats me, excellent execution John!

Would love to see you compare the 10-in-1 type tools with the single use type tools and see if they are really worth it.

I love this channel! Near the end though, John says "I'll do som tidying up", these are things I'd kinda like to see. He runs into problems early on, and moves forward, where the rest of us just throw it in the trash, being able to see what he does to fix it in flight would be super cool. Love this channel!

Aaaand this is why metric measurements are standard while weird unit (imperial) are not 😂

My favorite projects you do are the ones like this. You know... the super complicated ones where everyone, including YOU, is seeming shocked to find out what you made and that it works almost as planned. I really enjoy every Sunday. Great stuff as always, Thanks for a great start to the day.

To be fair. For that cabinet they give about half an inch between the doors, and the cut the video between pulling to start opening it and pushing to finish opening it so they cut the part where it goes all wobbly and weird